Here Is a Design Proposal for the Future Basketball Arena

The City of Seattle has just posted a design package (PDF) proposing what the new Sonics arena could look like. The package is loaded with pretty pictures of what the proposed neighborhood looks like now, ways that the proposed site will interact with the existing neighborhood, and it features a few tentative sketches of the hotly contested new stadium. Here are some screenshots from the design package:

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As you can see from the long, narrow second screenshot, this design proposal looks to have a smaller footprint than the other three stadiums. Like it? Loathe it? There will be a review meeting to discuss this proposal in two short weeks: